Blue Horses

In the stillness of the Italian countryside, an elderly painter lives alone in a crumbling house overtaken by weeds and silence. His days are marked by routine, solitude, and a quiet ritual: every year, he paints a pair of blue horses and hangs the finished canvas in a numbered frame. The meaning of this strange habit is known only to him. The only person who still visits him is a sharply dressed art broker who brings small religious commissions to keep the old man afloat. This time, the broker has a tempting offer: a wealthy collector is willing to pay a substantial sum for one of the blue horse paintings. But the painter refuses, calmly and resolutely. Their exchange is tense, filled with past frustrations and unspoken history. When the broker leaves in anger, the old man burns his latest painting, collects the ashes in a tin box, and pedals to a wooden cross at the side of a dusty road. There, in a quiet act of mourning, he releases the ashes into the wind. Blue Horses is a lyrical, intimate short film that explores the intersection of grief, art, and memory. It’s a story of loss that unfolds without spectacle, told through gestures, silences, and the eternal bond between a father and the family he lost.